http://iowntheworld.com/blog/ Columbia University Awards Al Jazeera Highest Journalism Award Fox News “Al Jazeera English has performed a great service in bringing the English-speaking world in-depth coverage of the turmoil in the Middle East,” said Dean Nicholas Lemann. “We salute its determination to get to the heart of a complicated story unfolding in countries where news […]
IBD EDITORIALS VIEWPOINT We’re Culturally Sensitive And Tote Really Big Guns By MARK STEYN As my old friends at the Spectator in London pointed out on Monday morning, I scooped the entire planet in breaking the news of Osama bin Laden’s death: “Osama bin Laden is dead, says Mark Steyn.” This was in the Spectator’s edition […]
From: actionalliance1@yahoo.com Subj: Stand with Israel — Stand with Wiesenfeld Action Alert May 6, 2011 From: Beth Gilinsky, Action Alliance Irene Alter, Center for Policy Research in American Education Stand with Jeff Wiesenfeld and Israel! Our good friend, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, is a trustee of the City University of New York. He is under attack by […]
http://www.energypublisher.com/article.asp?id=53317 Anti-Israel Anti-Catholic Tony Kushner deserves no reward Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the decision by trustees of the City University of New York (CUNY) not to award playwright Tony Kushner with an honorary degree. by William Donohue As a general rule, objections to anyone being considered for an honorary degree take on weight […]
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=219433 No less significant than the pact itself are the lengths the Left is going to obfuscate and belittle the importance of what happened. By most accounts, the Fatah-Hamas unity deal signing ceremony Wednesday was a grand affair. Hamas terror-chief Khaled Mashaal jetted in from Damascus. PLO/Fatah/Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas flew in from Ramallah. […]
http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/05/05/hezbollah-sets-base-near-mexican-border?cmpid=NL_FiredUpFoxNation_20110506 Hezbollah Considered To Be More Advanced Than Al-Qaida SAN DIEGO — A terrorist organization whose home base is in the Middle East has established another home base across the border in Mexico. “They are recognized by many experts as the ‘A’ team of Muslim terrorist organizations,” a former U.S. intelligence agent told 10News. The […]
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=219451 It was encouraging to hear British Prime Minister David Cameron voice his unequivocal support for Israel. It was encouraging to hear British Prime Minister David Cameron voice his unequivocal support for Israel, during Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to 10 Downing Street on Wednesday. “Britain is a good friend of Israel and our support […]
The Pakistan conundrum http://www.yeoldecrabb.wordpress.com Everything about Pakistan from its very beginning has been anomalous. It was dreamed up by romantic poets but survival has depended on a stolid military drawing on British Indian Army professionalism. Its parameters were defined by Islam but its secularist elite sought a nation-state where none had ever existed. Its ethnic […]
Annals of the Arab Spring: Egyptian “Democrats” Praise Bombing of Gas Pipeline to Israel By Andrew C. McCarthy http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/266648/annals-arab-spring-egyptian-democrats-praise-bombing-gas-pipeline-israel-andrew-c-mcca The Jerusalem Post reports that peaceful Egyptian protestors have descended on the Israeli embassy in Cairo today to celebrate the bombing of a pipeline in Sinai that delivers gas to Israel. [Hat tip: Andrew Bostom.] They demanded […]
The Waterboarding Trail to bin Laden Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said that as late as 2006 fully half of the government’s knowledge about the structure and activities of al Qaeda came from harsh interrogations. By MICHAEL B. MUKASEY Mr. Mukasey was attorney general of the United States from 2007 to 2009. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859304576305023876506348.html Osama bin […]
